A report, presented to the European Parliament on January 29 by a group of researchers, accuses Tunisia of deporting...
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Egypt: Efforts at a National Dialogue Undermined by an Unhinged Political Police
Egypt is sending mix signals on its human rights records. Some in Cairo’s political system are trying hard to project...
Tunisia: Harsh Conditions for Migrants in North Africa as they Seek Path to Italy
Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, has been active seeking the participation of North African nations to stop the...
Egypt: 15-year jail sentence for a sit-in
An Egyptian court sentenced 59 suspected members of the Muslim Brotherhood to 15 years in prison on Thursday for...
Algeria: Actresses launch campaign against murder of women in Algeria
Algerian actresses angered by murders and violence targeting women have launched a campaign to fight the phenomenon --...
Egypt on a killing spree: 49 people executed by the government in 10 days
Egypt executed 49 prisoners in just 10 days in October, Human Rights Watch said Thursday, calling for authorities to...
Algeria: Regime’s intolerance for LGBT community
Human Rights Watch on Thursday urged Algeria to immediately release two men imprisoned for homosexuality and to void...
Libya: Another rogue official arrested in Libya for human trafficking
Libya's UN-recognised government on Wednesday announced the arrest of a former coastguard wanted by Interpol and under...
Tunisia: More migrants perish off the coast of Sfax
Nine more bodies have been recovered after a migrant boat sank off Tunisia, raising the death toll to at least 11 with...
Migrants in Algeria confronted with mass deportations and abuse
Algerian security forces have arrested thousands of migrants and asylum seekers, cramming them onto trucks and buses...
Algeria: Islamo-conservatives on the attack, unite in their disdain for minority languages and secularism
Algerian extremist court punishes man for his religious views, more human rights abuses by conservative judges An...
Algerians in shock after murder of 19-year old woman
The rape and murder in Algeria of a 19-year-old woman sparked cries for action on gender-based violence in the North...
Finally Egypt does the right thing: it released journalist Basma Mostafa
Egypt's prosecutor-general has ordered the release of a journalist days after she was arrested in the country's south,...
Libya: Financial challenges undermine UN’s rights agency’s work in Libya
The United Nations does not have enough funds to investigate rights violations in strife-torn Libya this year, the...
Egypt arrests journalist Basma Mostafa just for reporting on anti-Sisi protests
6 October Update Egypt's prosecutor-general has ordered the release of a journalist days after she was arrested in the...
Egypt accused of torturing LGBT people
Human Rights Watch lambasted Egypt in a report Thursday for routinely arresting, abusing and torturing LGBT people,...
Egypt: More death sentences in Egypt over murder of police agents
An Egyptian criminal court on Wednesday sentenced six people allegedly belonging to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood...
Tunisia: President Kais Saied shows his real self, backs use of death-by-hanging in murder cases
Tunisia's President Kais Saied has said he backs capital punishment, after public outrage over a woman's murder...
Algeria intensifies judicial harassment of Hirak activists
Since the sentencing of journalist Khaled Drareni and the re-arrest of Mohamed Laalami, several political activists...
Libya: Amnesty Intl catalogs horrific abuses on migrants in Libya
Amnesty International on Thursday urged the EU to reconsider cooperation with Libya over "horrific abuses" of refugees...
Egyptian human rights group ECRF wins Norway’s Rafto Prize
Norway's Rafto Prize for human rights was on Thursday awarded to the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms...
Algeria: Former cop who joined anti-regime protests sent to prison
A former Algerian policeman who joined the country's protest movement was sentenced on Thursday to two years in jail,...
Algeria: Government-controlled court sentences journalist Drareni to two years in prison
Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni was jailed for two years on appeal Tuesday, a defence lawyer said, in a case seen...
Libya: Police in Al-Marj open fire on civilians who were protesting economic despair
Protesters in Libya's second city Benghazi set fire to the headquarters of the parallel eastern administration...
Egypt’s brutal and punitive judicial system
Egyptian human rights groups on Saturday accused the authorities of "recycling" judicial cases against dissidents to...
Algeria: Two political prisoners go on hunger strike
(Photo: Poet Mohamed Tadjadit) Two jailed activists from Algeria's anti-government "Hirak" protest movement have been...
Libya’s GNA fires Interior and Defense Ministers after violence against protesters
Tripoli, Aug 29, 2020 - The head of Libya's unity government on Saturday appointed a new defence minister and army...
The Algerian regime now sends poets to prison
The Algerian regime is gripped by fear that the anti-government Hirak movement reignites. Mass arrests have...
Algeria’s repressive courts sentence journalist Abdelkrim Zeghileche to prison on bogus charges
Algiers, Aug 24, 2020 - An Algerian journalist was sentenced Monday to two years in prison, his lawyer told AFP, in...
Egypt: Another senior opposition figure dies in Egyptian prison
Cairo, Aug 13, 2020 - A senior leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood died Thursday in an Egyptian prison where he...
Algeria’s outrageous justice system: jails some, releases others for the same offenses: signs of unstable regime
Algiers, Aug 11, 2020 - Supporters of jailed Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni on Tuesday demanded his release in an...
Chad: Worsening human rights record in Chad after death of civilians in prison
N'Djamena, Aug 8, 2020 - Forty-four people who died in a Chad prison cell were civilians who succumbed to brutal...